Today I am sharing my grandmother's recipe
for pancakes written in her own
handwriting.
♥
Here's the typed-up version:
Hot Cakes for One
3 heaping tablespoons of flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
¼ teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon of butter
Enough milk to make the batter pour
Grease skillet [with the butter]
Pour batter from pitcher.
(These sound very humble and simple,
but they are really very delicious,
as most things made from scratch are!)
She was a widow, so she did a lot of cooking for one,
but she could also put on the best Sunday
noon spread
you could imagine with roast, carrot salad, rolls,
and Kentucky Wonders
and New Potatoes.
(I still cook those fresh green beans! Yum!)
She was also that grandmother that always had
fresh Banana Bread cooling
when we arrived
late on a Friday night from out-of-town.
In her senior years, she taught me how to add sautéed
In her senior years, she taught me how to add sautéed
chopped onions to a can of Franco-American spaghetti
to transform its flavor.
And this is the same grandmother who
And this is the same grandmother who
salted watermelon (what?!), and
then taught us
how to cut the rind into watermelon "teeth" for fun!
how to cut the rind into watermelon "teeth" for fun!
Doesn't every family make watermelon teeth??
Good times!
XOXO,
Lucky Dog
♥
